From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:53:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420225358.GC28697@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090420223500.GB11068@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:35:00PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
> With USB, you just can't *ever* get it right. There is no limit on how
> long a device has to tell you its there. I wish this weren't the case,
> but our good friends in the USB world tell us that we have been lucky
> to have had USB consoles work as long as they have.
Lucky? You all are _more_ than lucky. USB consoles was a bad hack
written on a drunken dare. I'm still constantly amazed that the thing
even works at all, let alone the fact that people are actually using it :)
The things I agree to over beers, you would think I would learn...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-17 21:31 [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3 David VomLehn
2009-04-17 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-17 23:12 ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 21:51 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-20 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 22:35 ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 23:23 ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-04-20 22:29 ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-25 8:16 ` Pavel Machek
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